Quotes About Return

Then my God put it into my heart to assemble the nobles, the officials, and the people to be enrolled by genealogy. I found the genealogical register of those who had first returned, and I found the following written in it:

These are the people of the province who came up from the captivity of the exiles carried away to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar its king. They returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own town,

The following came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer, but could not prove that their families were descended from Israel:

But they were disobedient and rebelled against You; they flung Your law behind their backs. They killed Your prophets, who had admonished them to return to You. They committed terrible blasphemies.

Now these are the priests and Levites who went up with Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and with Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,

While all this was happening, I was not in Jerusalem, because I had returned to Artaxerxes king of Babylon in the thirty-second year of his reign. Some time later I obtained leave from the king

I also learned that because the portions for the Levites had not been given to them, all the Levites and singers responsible for performing the service had gone back to their own fields.

She would go there in the evening, and in the morning she would return to a second harem under the care of Shaashgaz, the kingís eunuch in charge of the concubines. She would not return to the king unless he delighted in her and summoned her by name.

As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come back up.

He never returns to his house; his place remembers him no more.

before I go—never to return—to a land of darkness and gloom,

He despairs of his return from darkness; he is marked for the sword.

For when only a few years are past I will go the way of no return.

His sons will seek the favor of the poor, for his own hands must return his wealth.

He must return the fruit of his labor without consuming it; he cannot enjoy the profits of his trading.

If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored. If you remove injustice from your tents

all flesh would perish together and mankind would return to the dust.

Then I will teach transgressors Your ways, and sinners will return to You.

So their people return to this place and drink up waters in abundance.

Return, O God of Hosts, we pray! Look down from heaven and see! Attend to this vine—

You return man to dust, saying, “Return, O sons of mortals.”

Return, O LORD! How long will it be? Have compassion on Your servants.

He who goes out weeping, bearing a trail of seed, will surely return with shouts of joy, carrying sheaves of grain.

None who go to her return or negotiate the paths of life.